{"id":2302,"date":"2015-05-11T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2015-05-14T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:31:15","slug":"rouster-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"Rouster song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This rousterabout song was taken from Capt. William Tippitt&#8217;s History of the Lee Line<\/p>\n<p>De rousters in da cabin,<br \/>\nEatin from de plate<br \/>\nDe Captain on the levee<br \/>\ntotin in de freight<br \/>\nDe Stewart and de pilot<br \/>\nDe cook and de clerk<br \/>\nIs humpin on de gang plank<br \/>\nDoin rousters work.<\/p>\n<p>Wages on the Memphis River front in 1890 were $100\\month for pilots<br \/>\nand $60\\month for rousters.<\/p>\n<p>These pictures are from my brother George&#8217;s collection and depict rousters moving coal from a barge onto the boiler deck storage bins.\u00a0 The boat is unknown but the location is probably on the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/031-ROUSTERS-2_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2305\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/031-ROUSTERS-2_1-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"031 ROUSTERS 2_1\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/031-ROUSTERS-2_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/031-ROUSTERS-2_1-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/030-ROUSTERS_4_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2304\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/030-ROUSTERS_4_1-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"030 ROUSTERS_4_1\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/030-ROUSTERS_4_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/030-ROUSTERS_4_1-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This rousterabout song was taken from Capt. William Tippitt&#8217;s History of the Lee Line De rousters in da cabin, Eatin from de plate De Captain on the levee totin in de freight De Stewart and de pilot De cook and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=2302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roustabouts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-B8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}